Raleigh's Page[2]by Alan W. Armstrong[3]In the late 16th century, 15-year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia, where he helps to establish relations with the indians.

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Carrie's War[4]by Nina Bawden[5]Carrie and her brother spend World War II as evacuees in a small Welsh village where Carrie, upset by a family feud, commits an act that haunts her for 30 years.

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The Rising Star of Rusty Nail[6]by Lesley M. M. Blume[7]In the town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, a talented 10-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from Olga Malenkov, a Russian musician suspected of being communist spy.

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Priscilla and the Hollyhocks[8]by Anne Broyles[9]A young African American girl is sold away from her mother as a slave, and then later is sold to a Cherokee Indian, but eventually she is bought by a white man who not only sets her free, but adopts her into his family of 15 children.